"Which Kobayashi?"

"Mom, it's my colleague from the oil factory, and he used to come to my house to play."

"Oh, that girl. Isn't it the daughter of the fourth mother's eldest brother? ”

"Yes, don't talk about this girl, my eldest brother and sister-in-law are angry with her, so old, not married, I heard that I work in a big hotel, I like a boss, people don't like her, she hasn't been home for a few years, I don't know where she is? It's not good for us to keep asking. ”

"Yes, yes."

"Three women, one play" five women? Everyone was very casual, and the drinks were heartily drunk. chatted and turned the topic to Li Feng.

"You three sisters, it's more difficult for Feng'er now."

"Busy is busy, the key is that you can't save money, you can earn ten yuan and spend nine yuan, every year."

"Hou Jiu drinks twice a day."

"Feng'er, you have to tie Hou Jiuqian up, your son needs money when he is older, he has been married for more than ten years, and his family is still the small bungalow before he got married, as the saying goes, men are money pickers, and women are money bags."

Li Feng's eyes widened

"Now people use WeChat to transfer money, not cash, I haven't used WeChat yet, Hou Jiu's money for work is in his WeChat. I just collect some odd cash in the store. ”

"Drink, Fourth Mother."

"When the dung heap is hot, don't look at people too dead, in this society, as long as you work hard and work steadfastly, you will have food!"

"Feng'er, your mother is right."

"Fourth mother, let's drink"

Zhang Ju's eyes widened, her eyebrows raised, and her lips pursed,

"Yo ~ Qing'er, I can't drink anymore, I drank too much."

"Fourth mother, don't we know how much you drink?"

"Hahaha," Zhang Ju grinned.

After dinner, the dishes and chopsticks were washed, Zhang Ju said goodbye to everyone and went home.

"Fourth mother? Okay, we'll send you. ”

"No, no, no"

"Your fourth mother is also a poor person, her ex-husband died of cancer, and she continued to give your fourth uncle, she didn't have children, she just talked a lot, and she was a warm-hearted person."

After a while, Li Yun and Li Feng also went home.

At half past eight in the evening, Li Yun called Li Qing

"Hou Jiu called us just now, I don't know where I drank too much, like a madman, and asked us what we were plotting at my mother's house today! He said that not only did he not share the money for the new kitchen, but also gave him all the money for cement and other materials! ”

"What? What is conspiring for? Is the fourth mother still here? What are we plotting? ”

"Didn't we talk about letting Feng'er tie up Hou Jiu's money?"

"It is estimated that Feng'er went home and did not pass the word completely, Hou Jiu misunderstood and misinterpreted, and came to play drunk and go crazy."

"Definitely, last time too. The private words that our sisters said together, Feng'er went home and told Hou Jiu as it was. The next day, Hou Jiu..."

"Hey! … In the future, I don't care about Feng'er anymore, I don't say anything other than eating and drinking! ”

At noon the next day, Li Qing accompanied Song Nanzhi to lunch, and Song Nanzhi sent it to the gate of the hospital.

"Mom, go home, close the door, and rest for a while,"

"Well, come back whenever you want.

If you don't go far away, it's right at your doorstep. ”

"Okay, okay, I'll be back in two more years. Hahaha"

Song Nanzhi held on to the iron door and stood in the door, looking at Li Qing who was standing outside the door, Li Qing didn't dare to stay any longer.

"Mom, I'm leaving, close the door."

Song Nanzhi walked outside the door

"Let's go, I'll sweep up the garbage at this door."

Li Qing turned around and walked forward, all the way to the bus stop, and dialed Zhao Long's phone as he walked

"Mr. Zhao, I am at the bus station now, and in twenty minutes, I will arrive at the county long-distance bus station."

"Okay, Li Qing, I'll wait for you at the county long-distance bus station."

"Mr. Zhao, tomorrow, I'll go to the hotel to hand over the work, I think Manager Hao is a good person."

"Are you in such a hurry?"

"It's not a matter of urgency, I should return to myself, and neither should you."

"I know what I have to do."

At ten o'clock in the evening, Li Qing arrived at Xinya Garden, both of them were silent, Li Qing always lowered his head and did not look at Zhao Long, until Zhao Long drove back to the city.

Ouyang's phone Li Qing kept it in mind, and there was no need to flip through the phone book.

Li Qing entered the familiar string of numbers, but did not click the dial button, Li Qing didn't know what to say, and walked around the room with his mobile phone.

It was twelve o'clock at night, and Li Qing was not sleepy at all.

At eight o'clock in the morning, Li woke up, thought about it, and decided to go to the hotel to hand over the work first, and then go to the apartment in the evening.

At half past six in the evening, Li Qing arrived at the apartment, went up to the second floor to the door of room 206, the door was locked, there was no light in the room, it was estimated that Ouyang had not come back, Li Qing went up to another floor, standing in front of the glass window at the staircase, from here you can clearly see every car and pedestrian entering and leaving the apartment.

A silver-gray sedan slowly entered the door of the apartment, the familiar license plate number, and the familiar color of the seat cover could be seen through the window glass.

Li Qing was sure that this was Ouyang, Li Qing came down from upstairs, hid at the staircase with bated breath, and looked at the long corridor.

Someone went upstairs to the sound, several people together, not Ouyang, there was a sound of going upstairs, a man and a woman spoke very loudly, not Ouyang, there were footsteps at the staircase again, and there was a man's coughing voice, it was Ouyang, Li Qing stretched out his head to look at the corridor, Ouyang walked to the front of the corridor with a computer bag in one hand and a small bag of vegetables in the other, and went to the front of the corridor with a small bag of vegetables in the other, and went to the door of 206, handed the small bag to the other hand, took out the key with one hand, and the door opened, followed by a sound of closing.

Li Qing came down the stairs and walked slowly forward in the corridor, the lights of 206 were on.

Li Qing stood at the door and hesitated for a while, then raised his hand "Knock, knock"

There was a sound of walking in slippers from the door, the door opened, Ouyang opened the door with a smile, and when he saw that it was Li Qing, he immediately smiled on his face, and turned around expressionlessly to continue to wash vegetables.

Li Qing walked in and closed the door casually.

The room was dirtier and messier than the first time I came.

Li Qing put down his suitcase and stepped into the bathroom to wash his hands.

Ouyang continued to wash the vegetables, cut the vegetables and then stir-fry. The small rice cooker cooking lamp jumped to keep warm, and the dish was ready after a few minutes.

Ouyang was still expressionless,

"Have you eaten?"

"Nope"

Ouyang brought two bowls and two pairs of chopsticks to serve rice.

"Oh, I'll do it myself"

Li Qing said.

Ouyang took a bowl of rice, picked up the bowl, and ate one bite after another with the vegetables.

Li Qing lowered his head and ate slowly, without speaking, and glanced at Ouyang with the rest of his eyes.

Ouyang still finished eating two bowls of rice, boiling a pot of water, making a cup of tea, and standing in front of the window and lighting a cigarette.

Li Qing washed the pots and bowls after eating, poured a cup of boiling water from a teacup, and sat down at the head of the bed.

Ouyang turned on the computer and sat down in front of the computer.

Li Qing took the book and looked at it aimlessly.

At half past ten, Ouyang turned off the computer, washed and went to bed and lay down.

Li Qing also washed and lay down at the end of the bed.

The next day, Li Qing cleaned up in the room, and Ouyang went to the store alone.

In the evening, Ouyang came back, glanced at the room, still expressionless, and did not speak.

Li Qing cooked the food and filled two bowls of rice.

"Let's Eat"

Ouyang washed his hands, came over to serve a bowl to eat, ate two bowls of rice and drank half a bowl of soup in three minutes, Li Qing still chewed and swallowed slowly, and washed the pots and bowls after eating.

Ouyang sat in front of the computer after smoking a cigarette, and Li Qing flipped through the books he liked to read.

At ten twenty, Ouyang turned off the computer and went to bed after washing, and made a slight noise for a while.

Li washed and slept at the end of the bed and turned off the light.

The room was quiet, Li Qing opened his eyes, looked at the ceiling, and after a while, he lay on his side, looked out the window, and finally groped his way to sit up.

Crawled to the head of the bed, lifted the quilt and got into the quilt, and lay on his side beside Ouyang.

"Since you've left me, what are you doing back? I'm doing well alone. ”

"You forced me to go"

"I forced you to go? Do you have to fire this family up? ”

Li Qing suddenly realized that he was very wrong, he has been married for more than ten years, does he understand his other half?

Li Qing was sad for a while, and hugged Ouyang's neck tightly, "Hmm~Hmm~ It's all your fault,"

"Blame me? Whenever you don't do what you want, you leave whenever you have a problem, you don't work together to find a way to solve the problem,"

"You don't pay attention to me."

"Every time I talk to you, you either don't answer or you reply very impatiently and fiercely, and I have to stop talking."

“… You don't look for me, you don't call me,"

"I'm looking for you, looking for it all over the world? Are you back in the provincial capital? I know you're not going to do anything stupid, and if you want to come back, you'll come back..."

The next morning, Li Qing and Ouyang went to the store together, and Ouyang was the only one in the store department, and there were two people in the warehouse.

"Ouyang, how is the business in the store these days?"

"It's better than a while ago, it's not a loss, it's not big, it's small and fine,"

"At first, I didn't bother to care, you didn't care, and I wasn't in the mood anymore. The employees are almost gone, and the two old watches in the warehouse are not gone, and then I think this will not work, I will go out to run the business myself, the business is a little better, and the net profit last month was 20,000 yuan. ”

"In our industry, it's not bad to do it on this scale, it's easy and simple, contentment and happiness, it's much better than going to work."

"I don't dare to toss now, and if I want to toss, it will not affect the life of the family."

Customers called one after another, and Ouyang was busy answering the phone and had no time to chat.

Li Qing went to the warehouse to take a look

"Old watch"

"Li Qing, you're back, Ouyang Lao said that you have returned to your hometown."

"Well, go back and take a look, my daughter is about to take the college entrance examination."

"Your daughter's high school is a boarding school, right?"